SALVADOR DALI "TRISTAIN AND ISOLDE PORTFOLIO", 1969Salvador Dali (1904 1989) is Surrealism's most accomplished and iconic practitioner. His work is eccentric, elaborate, and mysterious, with an avant garde style that explores the depths of the subconscious and dream like states. Prolific and endlessly inventive, Dali worked in almost every possible artistic medium; film, sculpture, photography, fashion and of course painting. Some of his earliest etchings date to the 1930's, as he worked in the

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and the Tate

He arguably absorbed some of the best characteristics of Pop art and minimalism as he established his own visual language

accentuating the strength and clarity of the geometric forms as they unfold across the page

Framed with museum glass according to specifications by the artist

in Japan and internationally

this work on paper is a paradigm of his oeuvre

Tod has depicted a wide-range of subjects

holding a standing child on her lap

In the early 1980's Charles Pachter approached the chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to do a Hockey-themed mural at the College Street subway station

instead spending the 1950s as an expat

Nevelson is renowned for her complex and distinctive artworks regardless of medium